halfway around the world

i've spent the last few days laughing and laughing and laughing. work has been great, as usual. but for some reason i have just been having so much fun and everything is hilarious. it's probably because the people i work with are amazing. i have tomorrow and wednesday off, so i only have three working days left on main street. i seriously get so emotional when thinking about the role change. i adore everyone i work with and i always have the best time at work and it's going to be so sad to have to leave there. i've definitely made some great friends in the first half of my program.

for a while, niza and i have been talking about barbados and i've been telling her that she has to come, and she kept agreeing with me and told me she really wanted to. a couple days ago, her and i were just sitting in our room talking about barbados again, and then she said she had enough money to buy her plane ticket now. so she called her mum, and asked her if it would be okay, and with her mum's permission, we went and bought her ticket so she's coming to barbados when i come home! we are SO excited! it happened so casually and after we just wanted to scream with happiness. i still can't believe that she's actually coming! i keep telling all of my friends that they need to come to barbados. in fact, i always speak as if it's a happening thing, and i say "when you come to barbados, we'll do x, y and z." i seriously want everyone to come and see how amazing it is. i'm so lucky to live in paradise.

this easter was definitely spent much different to how i usually spend it at home. normally we would go to church in the morning, after seeing what the easter bunny left for us, and then spend the rest of the day with the rest of the most amazing family in the world. this year, a friend of mine and me went to epcot. we did wear bright colours, kind of in keeping with the easter theme. we did a couple rides in the future world, and then made our way halfway around the world. (i say this, because we only got half of epcot covered since we had work that night.) along with that, we even saw the easter bunny and mrs bunny, and got our picture taken with them. we started in canada and made our way around, taking our time, enjoying the different cultures of the places, and going in all the stores in each country, taking pictures of everything like such tourists, including all the flowers. epcot is in bloom this time of year, and many disney characters are sculpted using flowers, and it is absolutely beautiful. nan would love to see the flower festival, it's so gorgeous. being at epcot was so much fun, and there was something there that reminded me of everyone. in england, of course everything reminded me of my dad. (also hayley, in one of the stores in the uk, they have SO many beatles stuff and it obviously reminded me of you.) then in france, when we had little pastries outside of a little cafe for dessert after our fish and chips in the uk, the quaintness of it all made me think of how much mum was going to love it. and of course, all the delicious food everyhwere reminded me of ben. i also thought of aunty annalee and aunty serena, just thinking how much they would love it, especially how pretty everything in morocco and china was. we ended our day in italy, where not only were the things gorgeous, but so were the fellas who worked there (who are in fact italian, let me just say. and while on that topic let me say that the guys in france weren't so bad either.) but it definitely was a different easter, even though my family was in bequia, living it up, having a grand time on family vacation without me. but i'd say my day wasn't too shabby.

i would like to mention, just by the way, how proud i was of myself the other night at work. i spoke spanish to guests on stage four different times. it was four different guests. granted, it was very, very, very basic spanish but i am so proud of myself. i feel so accomplished. and speaking of being proud, i should mention how proud i am of ben. he had his first sailing regatta this weekend down in bequia (which is why my family went,) and his team came third overall which is amazing. i am a proud sister. also proud of mum for actually utilizing the pictures she takes with her camera and putting them on facebook! it was so nice to hear from the family on sunday night, even though they were with another one of my favourite families, and they clearly had in one or two drinks, so many things were repeated, yelled and sung. but it was wonderful, and even though i was just a tad bit emotional afterwards, it was so great to hear from everyone.

tomorrow we're going resort hopping, so i'm looking forward to see what some of the other resorts look like and have to offer. even though i was wide awake, bursting with excitement an hour ago, i am exhausted now, which i'm thankful for because i usually don't get tired in the night anymore now that i am accustomed to staying up until ungodly hours working. but an early night sounds like perfection right about now. i hope everyone had a great easter and enjoyed their time with all their loved ones. i missed mine terribly, but still had a magical day.